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Executive Order 10625 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 10625—Further Providing for the Administration of Foreign Aid Functions

Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Tuesday, August 2, 1955
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2 min read (500 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

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This executive order, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 1955-08-02, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Further Providing for the Administration of Foreign Aid Functions." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

Constitutional Assessment: Scrutinized through Article II, Section 2, this action exercises the President's constitutional role as Commander in Chief. Early Framers recognized broad executive discretion in commanding military forces during conflict, provided it remains bounded by congressional declarations and respects civilian domestic courts.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ 832), as amended, by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is ordered as follows: SECTION 1.
▪ 3179, is hereby amended as follows: (a) Section 102 (a) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(4) The functions conferred upon the President by section 124 of the Act, as amended.
▪ The determination of the value of the program for any country under that section shall be made by the Secretary of State.
▪ "(5) The function conferred upon the President by the penultimate proviso of section 108 of the Mutual Security Appropriation Act, 1956." (b) So much of section 106 as precedes subsection (a) (2) thereof is amended to read as follows: "SEC.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Armed Forces & Military Establishments 🏛️ Sovereign State Governments & Localities 🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants
Total Words
500
2,828 characters
Estimated Read Time
2 min
@ 200 words / min
Flesch-Kincaid
14.4
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
+0.02
Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations 

Exec. Order No. 10625, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Aug 2, 1955). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-10625-further-providing-for-the-administration-foreign-aid-functions.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 832), as amended, by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is ordered as follows: SECTION 1. Executive Order No. 10575 of November 6, 1954, 19 F. R. 7249, as affected by Executive Order No. 10610 of May 9, 1955, 20 F. R. 3179, is hereby amended as follows: (a) Section 102 (a) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(4) The functions conferred upon the President by section 124 of the Act, as amended. The determination of the value of the program for any country under that section shall be made by the Secretary of State. "(5) The function conferred upon the President by the penultimate proviso of section 108 of the Mutual Security Appropriation Act, 1956." (b) So much of section 106 as precedes subsection (a) (2) thereof is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 106. Allocation of funds. (a) Funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated or otherwise made available to the President shall be deemed to be allocated without any further action of the President, as follows: "(1) There are allocated to the Secretary of Defense funds for carrying out chapter 1 of Title I of the Act, as amended, and, without regard to section 106 (a) (2) of this order, funds for carrying out section 124 of the Act, as amended; but, for the purposes of the second sentence of section 108 of the Mutual Security Appropriation Act, 1956, such funds shall be available only when and in such amounts as they have been apportioned, for use, by the Bureau of the Budget." (c) Section 107 (a) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(6) The function conferred upon the President by the second sentence of section 124 of the Act, as amended." (d) Subsection (b) of section 107 is amended to read as follows: "(b) The sum of $300,000,000 provided for in section 402 of the Act, as amended, shall be divided between the Department of State and the Department of Defense as those departments shall mutually agree." (e) Sections 101 (b), 102 (a) (2), 102 (a) (3), and 106 (b) are amended by striking therefrom "142 (11)", "142 (7) ", "142 (10)", and "section 411 (b) of the Act", respectively, and inserting in lieu thereof "142 (b)", "142 (a) (7)", "142 (a) (10)", and "section 411 (c) of the Act, as amended," respectively. SEC. 2. Except in respect of any provision which has been revoked, superseded, or otherwise rendered inapplicable, and except as may be otherwise inappropriate, any reference in any provision of any prior Executive order to the Mutual Security Act of 1954 shall be deemed to include a reference to the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, August 2, 1955.